Trinity Street

Poems

Jen Currin

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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
10 August 2023

Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist.

While Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. Currin's poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism.

These poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as ""thrilling,"" ""emotionally evocative,"" and ""revelatory.""

By: Jen Currin
Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781487011628
ISBN 10: 1487011628
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 10 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JEN CURRIN is the author of seven books, including Hider/Seeker: Stories, which won a Canadian Independent Book Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book, and The Inquisition Yours, which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award and was a Lambda finalist. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional territories of the Multnomah, Chinook, Clackamas, and other tribes, Currin studied with Martín Espada and John Ashbery before moving to Canada in 2002. They live in New Westminster, BC, on unceded Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, and Musqueam territories and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Reviews for Trinity Street: Poems

""Wry, shrewd, and brassy … What Currin is after as a poet and in poetry is beyond an either/or premise. … Moving and discovering poems."" — Canthius ""Elegant and melodious poems … From transit rides to office tasks, Currin brews heady substance from quotidian routines."" — Vancouver Sun ""Oh, the sensitive, careful language, each word picked full of colour and taste. I want to eat it. I want to sing it."" — SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors Judge